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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLl-AM BAXTER TURNER AND JOHN ASBURY, OF COVENTRY, COUNTY OF WVARWICK, ENGLAND.

SADDLE FOR VELOCIPE DES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,861, dated August 13, 1889. Application filed March 6, 1889. Serial No. 302,044. (No modeli) T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we,WILLIAM BAXTER TUR- NER and JOHN ASBURY, both of Cheylesmore, Coventry, in the county of \Varwick, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Saddles for Velocipedes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a novel arrangement of parts for providing an elastic support for the saddles of velocipedes and at the same time holding the leather seat at tension.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a saddle constructed according to this invention; and Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly in section, and Fig. 4. an inverted plan view, of the saddle slightly modified, the elastic longitudinal strain for the seat being somewhat differently obtained.

In Figs. 1 and 2, A is the longitudinal saddle-bar provided, as usual, with a socket to receive the stem which supports the saddle. Mounted on the rear end of the saddle-bar A is a pair of elastic levers B B, and fitted to the front end thereof is a curled spring C. D is the saddle seat, constructed of leather, as usual, and attached at front to the spring C and at rear to the levers B B. These supports are free to yield to the weight of the rider to a degree sufficient to maintain the endwise tension of the seat.

The saddle-bar A is formed at rear with a cross-head A, through which,when the same is made hollow, as shown in the drawings, a rod a is passed to form a fulcrum for the pair of levers B B. These levers extend below their fulcrum-rod and are formed with eyes to receive each a tension-rod B, which is hinged thereto for the purpose to be presently explained. These rods are passed through lugs a',proj ecting laterally from the saddle-bar and standing in front of the cross-head, and they are supported in a horizontal position by the lugs. Strung upon these tension-rods in front of the lugs are coiled springs Biwhich are secured in position by means of nuts 1) taking into screw-threads formed on the forward ends of the rods, and it is through these springs that the supporting-levers are caused to put an endwise elastic strain upon the leather seat.

The ends of the curled spring C are secured by solder or otherwise in sockets formed in a forked extension A of the saddle-bar. The stem of this fork is threaded to receive a nut c, and a socket is made in the front end of the saddle-bar for the insertion of the screwed stem, which fits loosely therein. To prevent the fork A swiveling in its socket a bindingscrew (0 is provided for securing the fork rig- 6o idly to the saddle-bar. The head of the spring C is secured to the seat by a hooked extension 0 of the front plate, which is riveted, as usual, to the leather. The rear plate of the seat 0011- nects by bolts and nuts with the levers B.

It will now be understood that when the rider mounts the saddle the tendency of his weight to sag the leather will be neutralized by the elastic supports. The tension put on the seat may-be regulated by means of the nuts I) and c,the former of which serves to contract the springs Btand thereby enable the levers B the better to sustain the load, while the tightening up of the nut 0 will force out the forked extension A of the saddle-bar and cause the spring C to take up the slack of the leather seat.

In place of the curled spring C an elastic lever may be employed, as shown in the modification, Figs. 3 and at, In this case the lever C is hinged to the head of the saddle-bar and fitted at its lower end with a tension-rod like the levers B. Pendent from the saddle-bar is a lug (1*, for receiving the tension-rod B, and in rear of this lug a coiled spring B and nut 17 are fitted to the tension-rod. Thus the action of the front and back supporting-levers will be precisely alike, their elasticity being obtained from the restraining power of coiled springs B 0 It will be obvious that in the place of the coiled springs the tension-rods may be fitted with hollow blocks of india-rubber, the compression of which will regulate the endwise strain upon the leather seat.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is- In a saddle for velocipedes, the combination, 100 with the seat D, of the saddle-bar A, provided with a cross-head A, levers B, rigidly secured near one of their ends to the rear portion of tain the seat in a Stretched condition, subsaid seat and fnlcrnnied upon said cross-head, stantially as specified.

tension-rods 3 pivotally connected to said ,1 r

levers below their fulerums, coil-springs 1-3 ER IURA 5 Slll'lOIllldillgSElidtOl'lSiO11-1OdS,1L1gS a, extending' laterally from the saddle-bar and through Vitnesses:

which said tension-rods pass, nuts I) on the \V. H. HARRIS, tension-rods near their outer ends,andasprin g Notary Public, Birmzbzgham. near the forward end of said seat and operat- ALBERT NEWEY,

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